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  • Ricky Skaggs – back to the ’40s

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    When I saw Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder perform in 2005, they dedicated a portion of their show to reminding the audience that the following year (2006) would mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of bluegrass music. It is widely

  • Getting Into Bluegrass Banjo

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    Alan Munde has made a career out of playing the banjo, something he once joked about in an interview. He described meeting a girlfriend's parents as a young man, and answering their obvious question about what he did for a

  • Dan Tyminski Band in the studio

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    The Dan Tyminski Band is still hard at work in the studio, trying to complete the recording of their debut CD before they begin touring in January '08. At this point, Rounder is looking for an early spring release for

  • Cages Bend

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    Another CD we received at IBMA that we haven't yet mentioned is Now I'm Lonely from Cages Bend. It's a release well worth your attention, and we had held off posting about it on Bluegrass Today until online distribution was

  • Preview new Rhonda Vincent track online

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    The folks at Martha White Flour have made one track from the upcoming Rhonda Vincent CD, Good Thing Going, available for previewing on their web site. You can listen to Bluegrass Saturday Night in its entirety online. Martha White is a major

  • American Folk & Country Music Festival

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    Our UK correspondent, Richard F Thompson, shares this news. Forty years before the 'O Brother/Down From The Mountain' tour, an earlier group of like-minded musicians took some Appalachian music on the road. Thankfully, some of the music performed by the small

  • Top Three for the Clarks

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    This report comes from Casey Henry, a banjo player and writer living in Nashville, TN. She performed the past few years with her brother, Chris, in The Two Stringers, now disbanded. The Clark Brothers will definitely be either first, second,

  • DL&Q on PHC 12/15

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    Doyle Lawson is packing up his merry band and heading for New York City to perform live on A Prairie Home Companion this Saturday evening (12/15). They have two Christmas tunes ready - an instrumental medley and a different